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SCHOOL   LAWS 


ACTS  OF  1908 


STATE  OF  VERMONT 


Prepared  and  issued  by  the  Department  of  Education 
Circular  of  Information  No.  50 


SCHOOL   LAWS 


ACTS  OF  1908 


STATE  OF  VERMONT 


Prepared  and  issued  by  the  Department  of  Education 
Circular  of  Information  No.  50 


MONTPEL1ER : 

CAPITAL  CITY  PRESS 

PRINTERS 


TABLE  OF  CONTENTS. 

No.  of  Act  Page 

Appeals 38  15,  16 

Certification  of  Teachers 37  10,  11,  12,  13,  14,  15 

Child  Labor 44  22,  23 

Deaf  and  Dumb,  Instruction  of .  49  27 

Display  of  Flag 48  26,  27 

Division  of  Public  Money 47  25,  26 

Examination  of  Teachers 37  10,  11,  12,  13;  14,  15 

Grammar  School  Lands 46  24 

Incorporated  Districts 36,  47  8,  9,  10,  25,  26 

Manual  Training. .  * 40  17,  18 

Normal  Schools 34?  37   5,6,10,  11,  12,13,14,  15 

Number  of  Weeks  of  Legal  High 

Schools 39  16,  17 

Payment  of  Teachers'  Wages . .  45  23 

School  Accommodations 38  15,  16 

Secret  Societies 41  18,  19 

State  Aid 47  25,26 

State  Board  of  Education 34,  47  5,  6,  25,  26 

Supervision  of  Schools 36  8,  9,  10 

Teachers'  Certificates 37  10,  11,  12,  13,  14,  15 

Time  Allowed  Teachers 42  20 

Transportation 38,  47  15,  16,  25,  26 

Truancy 43  20,  21,  22 

Union  Superintendents 36  8,  9,  10 

Wages  of  Teachers 45  23 

Weeks    of    High    School,    Re- 
quired Number 39  16,  17 


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INTRODUCTORY  LETTER. 

MONTPELIER,  VT.,  MARCH  1,  1909. 
To  Teachers  and  School  Officers: 

The  following  pages  comprise  the  School  Legislation  en- 
acted by  the  General  Assembly  of  1908.  Your  special  atten- 
tion is  called  to  the  modification  of  the  laws  relating  to  the 
Examination  and  Certification  of  Teachers,  Supervision  of 
Schools,  Truancy,  Time  Allowed  Teachers,  and  the  Payment 
of  Teachers'  Wages. 

The  chief  modifications  and  essential  features  of  the  vari- 
ous laws  are  indicated  by  head  notes. 

Very  sincerely  yours, 

MASON  S.  STONE, 
Superintendent  of  Education. 


No.  34  creates  a  State  Board  of  Education  with  the  Governor  as 
Chairman,  ex-officio.  This  Board  assumes  the  duties  of  the  Board  of  Nor- 
mal School  Commissioners,  and  also  apportions  the  state  school  revenues. 


No.  34.— AN  ACT  PROVIDING    FOR  A  STATE    BOARD 
OF   EDUCATION. 

It  is  hereby  enacted  by  the  General  Assembly  of  the  State  of 
Vermont: 

SECTION  1.  A  state  board  of  education  is  hereby  created, 
consisting  of  the  governor  of  the  state,  as  chairman,  and  the 
superintendent  of  education  as  members  ex  officio,  and  three 
members  appointed  by  the  governor  on  December  1,  1908,  for 
the  term  of  one,  two  and  three  years  respectively,  and  annually 
thereafter  the  governor  shall  appoint  a  member  for  three 
years  to  succeed  the  member  whose  term  expires. 

The  governor  shall  also  appoint  biennially  for  the  term  of 
two  years,  one  resident  commissioner  in  each  town  where  a 
normal  school  is  located,  who  shall  serve  without  pay  and  only 
act  with  the  state  board  of  education  in  matters  pertaining  to 
the  normal  school  in  the  town  of  his  residence. 

The  governor  shall  have  power  to  fill  any  vacancies. 

SEC.  2.  Each  of  said  appointees  shall  receive  five  dollars 
a  day  for  services  rendered,  and  necessary  expenses.  Said 
board  shall  be  provided,  at  the  expense  of  the  state,  with  neces- 
sary supplies,  including  stationery,  printing,  postage  and  the 
like. 

Settlement  of  accounts  shall  be  quarterly,  on  March  first, 
June  first,  September  first,  and  December  first. 

SEC.  3.  Said  board  shall  elect  a  vice-chairman,  a  secre- 
tary and  a  treasurer.  Said  treasurer  shall  give  bonds  to  such 
an  amount  as  the  governorjandjstate  treasurer  may  designate. 

Said  board  may  make  regulations  governing  its  meetings 
and  the  pefformance  of  its  duties. 

SEC.  4.  Said  board  shall  assume  all  the  powers  and  duties 
now  granted  to  the  board  of  normal  school  commissioners, 
shall  have  full  control  and  management  of  the  normal  schools, 
and  any  normal-industrial  or  industrial  school  that  may  be 
established  by  the  state,?and  shall  havt3  power  to  make  such 
regulations  governing  these  institutions  as  the  interests  of  the 
state  demand. 


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SEC.  5.  Section  1096  of  the  Public  Statutes  is  hereby 
amended  so  as  to  read  as  follows: 

Section  1096.  The  state  board  of  education,  shall,  in  its 
discretion,  divide  the  sum  reserved  in  the  preceding  section 
among  the  towns  which  expend  at  least  fifty  cents  on  the  dollar 
of  the  grand  list  for  school  purposes,  not  including  new  build- 
ings, in  order  to  equalize  taxation  and  afford  equal  school 
privileges,  and  shall  certify  to  the  state  treasurer  such  division, 
and  said  treasurer  shall  pay  to  the  various  town  treasurers  in 
the  state,  on  or  before  the  tenth  day  of  July,  annually,  such 
reserved  sum,  according  to  the  division  herein  provided,  and 
take  their  receipts  for  monevs  so  paid. 

SEC.  6.  Sections  946/947  and  948  of  the  Public  Statutes 
are  hereby  repealed.  The  duties  imposed  upon  the  treasurer 
of  the  board  of  normal  school  commissioners  by  section  950  of 
the  Public  Statutes  are  hereby  devolved  upon  the  treasurer  of 
the  state  board  of  education. 

SEC.  7.     This  act  shall  take  effect  from  its  passage. 

Approved  December  14,  1908. 


No.  35  provides  $7,500  additional  appropriation  for  the  maintenance  of 
normal  schools  and  creates  a  Commission  to  investigate  and  con- 
sider ways  of  improving  the  public  schools  and  to  report  its  recommen- 
dations to  the  next  General  Assembly,  together  with  plans  and  specifica- 
tions for  a  new  normal  school  building. 


No.  35.— AN  ACT  TO  AMEND  SECTION  952  OF  THE 
PUBLIC  STATUTES,  RELATING  TO  APPROPRIA- 
TIONS FOR  NORMAL  SCHOOLS. 

It  is  hereby  enacted  by  the  General  Assembly  of  the  State  of 
Vermont: 

SECTION  1.  Section  952  of  the  Public  Statutes  is  hereby 
amended  so  as  to  read  as  follows: 

Section  952.  The  sum  of  thirty  thousand  dollars  is  hereby 
annually  appropriated  to  the  normal  schools  to  be  expended 
by  the  state  board  of  education  for  the  support  of  such  schools, 
as  follows: 

For  the  normal  school  at  Castleton,  seventy-five  hundred 
dollars. 


For  the  normal  school  at  Randolph,  seventy-five  hundred 
dollars. 

For  the  normal  school  at  Johnson,  seventy-five  hundred 
dollars. 

And  the  sum  of  seventy-five  hundred  dollars  to  be  used 
annually  by  said  board  for  the  benefit  of  any  or  all  of  said 
schools,  as  in  the  judgment  of  said  board  may  seem  best.  Pro- 
vided that  such  schools  are  maintained  at  a  standard  high 
enough  to  satisfy  said  board  that  the  graduates  of  such  schools 
are  properly  fitted  to  become  teachers. 

The  auditor  of  accounts  shall  semi-annually,  on  the  first 
clay  of  January  and  July,  draw  an  order  for  the  sum  of  fifteen 
thousand  dollars  in  favor  of  the  state  board  of  education. 

SEC.  2.  A  commission  consisting  of  five  members  to  be 
appointed  by  the  governor,  is  hereby  created  and  is  instructed 
to  investigate  and  consider  ways  and  means  of  improving  the 
public  schools  by  increasing  facilities  for  training  teachers, 
by  making  the  work  in  such  schools  more  practical  through 
instruction  in  agriculture  and  manual  arts  and  by  adjusting 
the  present  system  of  public  education  to  ends  more  promotive 
of  the  public  interests  of  the  state. 

Said  commission  shall  report  its  findings  and  recommen- 
dations to  the  general  assembly  of  1910;  shall  submit  plans, 
estimates,  specifications  and  locations  as  near  as  practicable, 
of  a  new  normal  school  building;  shall  serve  without  pay;  but 
the  auditor  of  accounts  is  hereby  directed  to  draw  orders  on 
the  state  treasurer  for  the  necessary  expenses  of  said  commis- 
sion in  pursuance  of  the  purposes  of  this  act. 

SEC.  3.     This  act  shall  take  effect  from  its  passage. 

Approved  January  28,  1909. 


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No.  36  makes  it  mandatory  upon  a  town  having  thirty  or  more  schools 
to  employ  a  superintendent  who  shall  give  his  entire  time  to  the  work; 
reduces  the  minimum  number  of  schools  for  a  supervision  union  to  25, 
and  the  maximum  number  to  50;  makes  appropriation  for  the  payment 
by  the  state  of  one-half  of  the  excess  of  the  superintendent's  salary  above 
$1,200,  not  exceeding  $1,800,  in  addition  to  the  $1,000  previously  provided 
for;  makes  it  incumbent  upon  the  union  superintendents  to  meet  with  the 
superintendent  of  education  at  least  once  a  year;  places  the  conducting  of 
teachers'  examinations  in  the  hands  of  union  superintendents;  furnishes 
a  means  for  re-organizing  unions;  and  requires  town  and  union  superin- 
tendents to  report  to  the  superintendent  of  education  the  names  of  teachers 
employed. 


No.  36.— AN  ACT  TO  AMEND  VARIOUS  SECTIONS  OF 
THE  SCHOOL  LAWS,  AND  TO  REPEAL  SECTION 
944  OF  THE  PUBLIC  STATUTES. 

It  is  hereby  enacted  by  the  General  Assembly  of  the  State  of 
Vermont: 

SECTION  1.  Section  938  of  the  Public  Statutes  is  hereby 
amended  so  as  to  read  as  follows : 

Section  938.  A  town  having  twenty-five  and  less  than 
thirty  schools  may,  and  a  town  having  thirty  or  more  public 
schools  shall  employ  a  superintendent  who  shall  give  his  entire 
time  to  the  supervision  of  schools,  except  as  hereinafter  provided 
for  part  time  supervision,  and  a  town  so  employing  a  superin- 
tendent may  individually  be  considered  a  union  if  the  school 
board  so  elects.  An  incorporated  school  district  shall  be  con- 
sidered a  town  for  the  purposes  of  this  chapter.  Two  or  more 
neighboring  towns  having  an  aggregate  of  not  more  than  fifty 
nor  less  than  twenty-five  legal  schools  may,  by  vote  of  the  school 
directors  of  the  several  towns,  unite  to  form  a  union  for  the 
purpose  of  employing  a  superintendent  of  schools  under  this 
chapter. 

SEC.  2.  Section  941  of  the  Public  Statutes  is  hereby 
amended  so  as  to  read  as  follows : 

Section  941.  Whenever  the  chairman  and  secretary  of 
said  committee  certify,  under  oath,  to  the  state  treasurer  that 
a  union  has  been  effected  as  provided  in  this  chapter,  and  that 
the  towns  unitedly  have  raised  by  taxation,  appropriated  and 
paid  in  any  one  year  a  sum  not  less  than  twelve  hundred  fifty 
dollars  as  the  salary  for  a  superintendent  of  schools,  and  that, 
under  the  provisions  of  this  chapter,  a  superintendent  has  been 
employed  for  one  year,  the  state  treasurer  shall  apportion  the 
sum  of  one  thousand  dollars  among  the  several  towns  forming 


the  union  according  to  their  respective  grand  lists,  and  shall 
pay  the  sums  so  apportioned  upon  the  approval  of  the  super- 
intendent of  education  to  the  several  treasurers  of  such  towns. 
When  said  chairman  and  secretary  certify,  under  oath,  the 
actual  salary  paid  said  superintendent,  the  state  treasurer,  in 
addition  to  the  one  thousand  dollars  hereinbefore  provided  for 
and  apportioned  among  the  several  towns  foiming  a  union, 
shall  also  apportion  among  such  towns,  and  in  like  manner, 
one-half  of  the  amount  of  said  superintendent's  salary  above 
twelve  hundred  dollars  and  not  exceeding  eighteen  hundred 
dollars,  such  additional  apportionment  to  any  one  union  not 
to  exceed  three  hundred  dollars.  Said  treasurers  shall  place 
such  sums  to  the  credit  of  the  school  funds  of  their  respective 
towns.  If  the  superintendent  of  a  town  which  individually 
constitutes  a  union,  spends  any  part  of  his  time  in  teaching, 
such  town  shall  receive  from  the  state  such  portion  of  one 
thousand  dollars  as  the  time  spent  by  him  as  superintendent 
bears  to  his  whole  time;  but  such  sum  so  paid  by  the  state  shall 
in  no  case  exceed  five  hundred  dollars. 

SEC.  3.  Section  943  of  the  Public  Statutes  is  hereby 
amended  so  as  to  read  as  follows: 

Section  943.  A  superintendent  elected  under  the  provi- 
sions of  this  chapter  may  be  removed  for  such  cause  as  a  ma- 
jority of  said  joint  committee,  with  the  approval  of  the  super- 
intendent of  education,  deem  sufficient.  Said  superintendent 
shall  devote  his  entire  time  to  the  supervision  of  schools,  ex- 
cept as  provided  for  a  superintendent  of  a  town  which  individu- 
ally constitutes  a  union,  shall  be  a  holder  of,  or  shall  have  held, 
a  first  grade  certificate  or  its  equivalent,  and  shall  have  taught 
at  least  fifty  weeks,  and  shall  be  a  resident  of  one  of  the  towns 
forming  a  union,  or  become  a  resident  before  entering  upon  his 
duties.  Said  superintendent  shall  conduct,  under  the  direction 
of  the  superintendent  of  education,  examinations  of  applicants 
for  teachers'  certificates,  shall  rate  the  applicants  in  such  mat- 
ters and  subjects  as  are  required  and  shall  make  such  returns  as 
may  be  required.  Said  superintendent  shall  meet  with  the 
superintendent  of  education  at  least  once  a  year,  when  notified 
by  him,  for  the  purpose  of  considering  matters  pertaining  to 
his  duties  and  to  the  general  educational  interests  of  the  state, 
shall  make  such  statistical  returns  to  said  superintendent  of 
education  as  may  be  required  by  him,  and  shall  annually,  on 
or  before  the  fifteenth  day  of  February,  submit  a  written  report 
of  his  official  doings  to  the  boards  of  school  clii  ectors  of  the 
several  towns  forming  the  union.  Said  superintendent  shall 
direct  the  work  of  the  teachers  and  pupils,  prescribe  courses  of 


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study,  supervise  the  purchase  and  distribution  of  books  and 
supplies  and  may  dismiss  a  teacher  who,  in  his  judgment,  is 
incompetent  and  unfit,  and  shall  have  all  the  powers  and  per- 
form all  the  various  duties  usually  pertaining  to  the  office  of 
superintendent  of  schools. 

SEC.  4.  By  a  majority  vote  of  the  school  directors  of  all 
the  towns  forming  a  union,  the  union  may  be  dissolved,  pro- 
vided the  several  towns  individually  join  unions  already  formed 
or  unite  in  forming  new  unions.  By  a  like  vote,  one  or  more 
towns*  may  be  released  from  a  union,  provided  such  town  or 
towns  join  unions  already  formed  or  unite  in  forming  new 
unions.  The  remaining  towns  shall  continue  in  existence  as  a 
union,  provided  the  number  of  schools  of  the  union  does  not 
fall  below  twenty-five,  and  such  union  may  accept  other  towns, 
provided  the  number  of  schools  of  the  reorganized  union  does 
not  exceed  fifty.  Such  remaining  towns  of  a  union  may  reduce 
the  number  of  its  schools  to  less  than  twenty-five,  provided  a 
sufficient  number  of  other  towns  are  added,  within  thirty  days 
after  reduction  below  twenty-five,  to  make  the  aggregate  num- 
ber of  schools  twenty-five  or  more. 

SEC.  5.  A  town  or  union  superintendent  shall  certify  to  the 
superintendent  of  education^  within  two  weeks  from  the  be- 
ginning of  each  term,  as  to  names  of  teachers  under  his  super- 
vision, together  with  residence,  grade  of  certificate  and  number 
of  weeks  taught. 

SEC.  6.  Section  944  of  the  Public  Statutes  is  hereby  repealed. 

SEC.  7.     This  act  shall  take  effect  July  1,  1909. 

Approved  December  16,  1908. 


No.  37  discontinues  the  examination  of  Teachers  by  County  Exami- 
ners after  July  1,  1909;  places  the  certification  of  teachers  in  the  hands  of 
the  superintendent  of  education;  limits  the  number  of  permits  to  one- 
third  the  number  of  terms  of  school  in  the  town,  not  exceeding  five  per- 
inits;  and  discontinues  the  teacher's  course  m  secondary  schools  and  re- 
graduation  from  normal  schools. 

No.  37.— AN  ACT  PROVIDING  FOR  A  MORE  UNIFORM 
AND  ECONOMICAL  SYSTEM  OF  EXAMINATION 
OF  TEACHERS. 

It  is  hereby  enacted  by  the  General  Assembly  of  the  State  of 
Vermont: 

SECTION  1.     The  superintendent   of  education  shall   ar- 
range and  provide  for  the  examination  and  certification  of 


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teachers,  shall  fix  the  standard  to  be  reached  for  certification, 
shall  prepare  and  procure  the  printing  of  questions  for  such 
examination  and  blanks  for  teachers'  certificates,  and  shall 
have  power  to  make  all  regulations  for  such  examination  and 
certification  provided  such  regulations  are  not  inconsistent 
with  the  laws  of  the  state. 

SEC.  2.  Under  the  direction  of  said  superintendent, 
the  superintendent  of  a  union  shall  conduct  examinations, 
and  shall  rate  applicants  for  teachers'  certificates  in  such  sub- 
jects and  matters  as  said  superintendent  of  education  may 
designate.  All  expenses  incurred  in  conducting  an  examina- 
tion within  a  union  shall  be  met  by  the  joint  committee  of  such 
union  in  the  same  manner  as  other  expenses  of  the  union  are 
met. 

SEC.  3.  If  in  the  judgment  of  said  superintendent  of 
education  an  examination  should  be  held  in  any  town  not  in- 
cluded in  a  union,  said  superintendent  may  designate  the  time 
and  place,  and  may  appoint  some  person  to  conduct  such 
examination.  For  such  service,  the  appointee  shall  receive 
three  dollars  per  day  from  said  superintendent  and  reimburse- 
ment for  all  necessary  expenses.  The  expense  of  such  an 
examination  shall  be  allowed  said  superintendent  in  the  set- 
tlement of  his  account. 

SEC.  4.  All  records  of  examination  and  certification  of 
teachers  shall  be  delivered  by  each  county  examiner  of  teach- 
ers to  said  superintendent  for  custody. 

SEC.  5.  Said  superintendent  is  hereby  empowered  to 
employ  such  clerical  assistance  as  is  necessary  for  the  purpose 
of  carrying  into  effect  the  provisions  of  this  act,  and  all  expenses 
incurred  in  the  performance  of  his  duty  shall  be  allowed  him 
by  the  state  in  the  settlement  of  his  account. 

SEC.  6.  Section  917  of  the  Public  Statutes  is  hereby 
amended  so  as  to  read  as  follows: 

Section  917.  Said  superintendent  may  arrange  for  and 
conduct  a  summer  school  for  teachers,  the  expense  of  which  to 
the  state  shall  not  exceed  twenty-five  dollars  a  day,  for  not 
more  than  ten  days  in  each  county;  and  said  superintendent 
may,  in  his  discretion,  unite  and  hold  in  some  convenient 
location  a  summer  school  for  two  or  more  counties;  but  the 
entire  expense  to  the  state  of  such  school  shall  not  exceed 
the  expense  of  two  schools  as  herein  provided. 

SEC.  7.  Section  918  of  the  Public  Statutes  is  hereby 
amended  so  as  to  read  as  follows: 

Section  918.  Said  superintendent  may  hold  educational 
meetings  in  different  towns  in  each  county  and  employ  compe- 


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tent  assistants;  the  expense  per  day  shall  not  exceed  thirty 
dollars  and  the  entire  expense  to  the  state  for  such  meetings 
in  a  county  for  a  year  shall  not  exceed  the  allowance  for  a 
summer  school,  such  expense  to  be  allowed  said  superintendent 
in  the  settlement  of  his  account. 

SEC.  8.  Section  958  of  the  Public  Statutes  is  hereby 
amended  so  as  to  read  as  follows: 

Section  958.  A  graduate  of  a  normal  school  in  another 
state  may  receive,  without  examination,  from  the  superintend- 
ent of  education,  on  presentation  of  a  diploma  or  certificate  of 
graduation,  a  certificate  of  the  first  grade,  valid  for  five  years 
from  the  date  of  graduation  and  subject  to  the  same  provisions 
as  certificates  of  graduation  from  a  normal  school  in  this  state. 

SEC.  9.  Section  959  of  the  Public  Statutes  is  hereby 
amended  so  as  to  read  as  follows: 

Section  959.  Examination  of  applicants  for  teachers' 
certificates  shall  be  both  oral  and  written  and  shall  be  held 
at  such  times  and  places  as  said  superintendent  may  designate 
for  the  accommodation  of  applicants.  A  record  of  the  name, 
age  and  residence  of  each  person  examined  shall  be  made  by 
the  person  conducting  the  examination  and  he  shall  forthwith 
transmit  such  data  to  said  superintendent,  together  with  such 
other  papers  as  may  be  required  by  said  superintendent,  who, 
upon  their  receipt,  shall  review  such  papers  and  thereafter 
keep  them  on  file  in  his  office  for  future  reference.  A  person 
who  fails  to  pass  shall  not  have  another  examination  for  a 
certificate  within  three  months  thereafter.  Certificates  issued 
on  such  .examination  shall  be  of  three  grades,  first,  second  and 
third,  and  shall  not  be  complete  unless  they  bear  the  signature 
or  a  printed  fac  simile  signature  of  the  superintendent  of  edu- 
cation nor  until  countersigned  by  the  person  who  conducted 
the  examination. 

SEC.  10.  Section  962  of  the  Public  Statutes  is  hereby 
amended  so  as  to  read  as  follows: 

Section  962.  A  certificate  of  the  first  grade  shall  be  issued 
to  one  who  has  taught  forty  weeks,  whose  examination 
papers  show  that  the  applicant  has  reached  the  standard  re- 
quired, and  who  has  given  evidence  of  good  moral  character 
and  ability  to  govern.  Such  certificates  shall  be  a  license  to 
teach  in  the  public  schools  for  five  years  from  its  date. 

SEC.  11.  Section  963  of  the  Public  Statutes  is  hereby 
amended  so  as  to  read  as  follows: 

Section  963.  A  certificate  of  the  first  grade  may  be  issued, 
without  examination,  to  a  graduate  of  a  college  approved  by 
said  superintendent,  upon  presentation  of  a  diploma  or  certifi- 


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cate  of  graduation;  and,  at  the  expiration  of  the  certificate  so 
issued,  if  said  graduate  has  taught  forty  weeks,  said  superin- 
tendent may  issue  a  second  first  grade  certificate. 

SEC.  12.  Section  966  of  the  Public  Statutes  is  hereby 
amended  so  as  to  read  as  follows: 

Section  966.  A  certificate  of  the  first  grade,  or  a  certificate 
of  the  second  grade  issued  on  examination,  held  by  a  teacher 
employed  continuously  in  the  same  town,  shall  remain  in  force 
during  such  employment. 

SEC.  13.  Section  967  of  the  Public  Statutes  is  hereby 
amended  so  as  to  read  as  follows: 

Section  967.  A  certificate  of  the  third  grade  may  be  is- 
sued by  the  superintendent  of  education,  in  his  discretion,  for  a 
specified  time,  not  exceeding  one  year.  Such  certificate  shall 
be  a  license  to  teach  in  the  public  schools  of  the  state  and  may 
be  limited  to  the  teaching  of  a  particular  school.  It  shall  be 
issued  only  to  one  who  has  passed  a  satisfactory  examination 
in  the  branches  required  to  be  taught  in  public  schools  and  is 
of  good  moral  character  and  ability  to  govern.  A  person  who 
has  twice  taken  a  certificate  of  the  third  grade  and  has  taught 
at  least  twenty-eight  weeks  shall  not  again  be  eligible  to  receive 
such  a  certificate. 

SEC.  14.  Section  969  of  the  Public  Statutes  is  hereby 
amended  so  as  to  read  as  follows: 

Section  969.  A  special  certificate  may  be  issued  by  the 
superintendent  of  education,  without  examination,  to  a  teach- 
er of  successful  experience  in  teaching  and  previous  certification 
in  the  first  or  second  grade,  or  of  special  training  for  teaching. 
Such  special  certificate  shall  be  a  license  to  teach  special  high 
school  subjects,  music,  drawing,  physical  culture  or  the  indus- 
trial arts  and  sciences,  in  the  public  schools.  Such  certificate 
shall  be  valid  for  five  years,  or  for  two  years,  according  to  the 
grade  of  the  certificate  previously  held  by  the  applicant;  and,  in 
case  of  special  training,  the  grade  of  such  certificate  shall  be 
determined  by  said  superintendent. 

SEC.  15.  Section  970  of  the  Public  Statutes  is  hereby 
amended  so  as  to  read  as  follows: 

Section  970.  A  special  third  grade  certificate  may  be 
issued  by  the  superintendent  of  education,  without  examina- 
tion, to  a  person  who  has  held  a  first  or  second  grade  certificate, 
or  its  equivalent  in  another  state,  and  presents  evidence  of  recent 
and  successful  teaching.  Such  certificate  shall  be  valid  only  in 
the  town  specified  therein  and  shall  be  a  license  to  teach  in  the 
public  schools  until  the  next  public  examination  or  for  one  year 
from  its  date.  A  second  special  third  grade  certificate  shall  not 


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be  issued  until  the  applicant  has  received  another  first  or  second 
grade  certificate  issued  on  examination. 

SEC.  16.  Section  971  of  the  Public  Statutes  is  hereby 
amended  so  as  to  read  as  follows : 

Section  971.  A  certificate  which  shall  be  valid  until  re- 
voked by  the  superintendent  of  education  may  be  issued  by 
said  superintendent  to  a  person  who  has  taught  in  the  public 
schools  five  hundred  weeks,  or  to  a  person  who  is  a  graduate  of 
an  approved  college  and  who  has  devoted  at  least  eight  years 
to  teaching  in  or  superintending  public  schools  in  this  state, 
or  to  a  person  who  has  taught  in  the  public  schools  of  this 
state  for  two  hundred  weeks  and  has  held  certificates  of  the 
first  grade  for  ten  years  or  certificates  of  the  first  and  second 
grade  for  twelve  years  or  certificates  of  the  second  and  third 
grade,  or  their  equivalents,  for  fourteen  years,  provided  that 
in  no  case  shall  special  certificates  be  included. 

SEC.  17.  Section  972  of  the  Public  Statutes  is  hereby 
amended  so  as  to  read  as  follows: 

Section  972.  A  graduate  of  a  normal  school,  holding  a 
ten  years'  certificate  or  two  five  years'  certificates,  who  has 
taught  successfully  two  hundred  weeks  under  the  same,  may, 
after  the  expiration  thereof,  be  granted  by  the  superintendent 
of  education,  without  examination,  a  certificate  which  shall  be 
a  license  to  teach  in  the  public  schools  until  the  same  is  revoked. 

SEC.  18.  Section  973  of  the  Public  Statutes  is  hereby 
amended  so  as  to  read  as  follows : 

Section  973.  The  superintendent  of  education  may  issue, 
without  examination,  a  certificate  to  a  person  who  has  taught 
successfully  in  primary  grades  for  three  hundred  weeks,  or  to  a 
graduate  of  a  recognized  kindergarten  training  school,  which 
shall  be  a  license  to  teach  in  primary  grades  or  kindergarten 
schools  for  five  years  from  its  date. 

SEC.  19.  Section  974  of  the  Public  Statutes  is  hereby 
amended  so  as  to  read  as  follows : 

Section  974.  A  town  superintendent  may  give  a  private 
examination  for  a  permit  to  teach  in  a  particular  school  for  a 
term  not  exceeding  twelve  weeks,  and,  in  case  of  a  successful 
examination,  shall  forthwith  transmit  to  the  superintendent 
of  education  the  name,  age,  and  residence  of  such  successful 
applicant,  together  with  the  percentages  attained  in  such  ex- 
amination and  the  examination  papers.  Said  superintendent 
of  education  may,  in  his  discretion,  issue  a  permit  on  such 
examination  and  shall  keep  a  record  thereof.  A  person  who  has 
received  one  permit  to  teach  shall  not  be  entitled  to  another  until 
said  person  has  received  a  certificate  on  a  public  examination. 


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Section  20.  Section  976  of  the  Public  Statutes  is  hereby 
amended  so  as  to  read  as  follows : 

Section  976.  Not  more  than  one-third  of  the  terms  of 
school  in  a  school  year,  and  not  exceeding  five  terms,  shall  be 
taught  under  permits  in  a  town. 

SEC.  21.  Section  999  of  the  Public  Statutes  is  hereby 
amended  so  as  to  read  as  follows : 

Section  999.  Said  clerk  shall  keep  a  permanent  record  of 
the  proceedings  of  the  board,  and  shall  make  such  returns  as 
the  superintendent  of  education  may  require. 

SEC.  22.  Sections  915,  916,  922,  925,  926,  927,  928,  929, 
930,  957,  960,  961,  965,  968,  and  975  of  the  Public  Statutes 
are  hereby  repealed. 

SEC.  23.  All  acts  or  parts  of  acts  inconsistent  with  this 
act  are  hereby  repealed. 

SEC.     24.     This  act  shall  take  effect  July  1,  1909. 

Approved  January  25,  1909. 


No.  38  provides  for  appeal  to  the  town  or  union  superintendent  in 
case  insufficient  school  accommodations  are  provided  by  the  hoard  of  school 
directors. 


No.  38.— AN  ACT  TO  AMEND  SECTIONS  1007  AND  1008 
OF  THE  PUBLIC  STATUTES,  RELATING  TO  IN- 
SUFFICIENT SCHOOL  ACCOMMODATIONS. 

It  is  hereby  enacted  by  the  General  Assembly  of  the  State  of 
Vermont: 

SECTION  1.  Section  1007  of  the  Public  Statutes  is  hereby 
amended  so  as  to  read  as  follows: 

Section  1007.  An  interested  person  may  appeal  from 
the  action  of  the  board  of  school  directors  to  the  town  or  union 
superintendent,  as  to  the  conveyance  of  pupils,  the  designation 
of  a  particular  school  for  a  pupil  to  attend,  insufficient  school 
accommodations,  or,  in  case  of  attendance  upon  a  school  in  an- 
other town,  as  to  the  number  of  weeks  of  school  attendance. 
Such  appeal  shall  be  taken  by  a  petition  signed  by  five  taxpayers 
of  the  town. 

SEC.  2.  Section  1008  of  the  Public  Statutes  is  hereby 
amended  so  as  to  read  as  follows: 


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Section  1008.  On  notice  of  such  appeal,  the  town  or  union 
superintendent  shall  appoint  a  time  and  place  of  hearing  thereon 
in  the  town  where  such  appeal  originated.  Such  appeal  shall 
be  heard  by  the  town  or  union  superintendent,  as  the  case  may 
be,  and  by  two  other  persons,  one  of  whom  shall  be  selected 
by  the  appellant  and  the  other  by  the  board  of  school  directors; 
and  if  either  party  fails  to  select  a  referee,  said  town  or  union 
superintendent  and  the  referee  selected  by  the  other  party 
shall  select  a  second  referee,  and  the  question  shall  be  decided 
by  the  superintendent  and  the  two  referees  so  chosen.  Said 
appeal  shall  be  to  the  union  superintendent  if  the  appellant 
resides  in  a  union  district,  if  not,  then  to  the  town  superintend- 
ent. The  decision  shall  be  rendered  in  writing  to  the  board  of 
school  directors,  and  said  board  shall  act  as  directed  therein. 

SEC.  3.     This  act  shall  take  effect  from  its  passage. 

Approved  January  27,  1909. 


No.  39  increases  the  number  of  weeks  for  an  approved  secondary 
school  to  30. 


No.  39.— AN  ACT  TO  AMEND  SECTIONS  1016,  1029  AND 
1097  OF  THE  PUBLIC  STATUTES,  RELATING  TO 
THE  NUMBER  OF  WEEKS  OF  SCHOOL. 

It  is  hereby  enacted  by  the  General  Assembly  of  the  State  of 
Vermont: 

SECTION  1.  Section  1016  of  the  Public  Statutes  is  hereby 
amended  so  as  to  read  as  follows : 

Section  1016.  For  the  purposes  of  this  chapter,  a  high 
school  shall  be  a  school  of  any  one  of  the  following  classes :  first 
class,  a  school  of  a  four  years'  course  or  courses;  second  class, 
a  school  of  a  three  years'  course  or  courses;  third  class,  a  school 
of  a  two  years'  course  or  courses;  fourth  class,  a  school  of  a  one 
year  course  or  courses. 

The  course  or  courses  of  instruction  in  each  school  in  any 
one  of  the  four  classes  shall  begin  immediately  at  the  completion 
of  an  elementary  course  of  nine  years. 

Each  school  shall  be  considered  a  single  school,  in  and  for 
which  a  single  register  shall  be  kept  and  returned  according  to 


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law,  and  each  shall  be  maintained  at  least  thirty-six  weeks  in 
the  school  year  and  shall  be  taught  by  a  teacher  or  teachers  of 
competent  ability,  of  good  morals  and  legal  certification;  and, 
in  each,  instruction  shall  be  given  in  English  language  and 
literature,  higher  mathematics,  history,  natural  science  and,  in 
schools  of  the  first  and  second  class,  ancient  and  modern  Jang- 
guages;  and  instruction  may  be  given  in  political,  social,  moral 
and  industrial  sciences,  commercial  subjects,  ancient  and 
modern  languages,  music^and^physical  culture,  and  in  the  fine 
and  mechanical  arts. 

The  course  or  courses  and  subjects  of  study  for  each  school 
shall  be  prescribed  by  the  superintendent  of  education,  and 
each  school  shall  conform  thereto. 

An  educational  institution  legally  incorporated  and  pro- 
viding instruction  equivalent  to  that  of  a  high  school  of  any 
class  shall  be  an  academy. 

SEC.  2.     This  act  shall  take  effect  April  1,  1909. 

Approved  December  16,  1908. 


No.  40  provides  state  aid  for  manual  training  departments  in  gram- 
mar or  high  schools. 


No.  40.— AN  ACT  TO  PROVIDE  STATE  AID  FOR  MAN- 
UAL TRAINING  DEPARTMENTS. 

It  is  hereby  enacted  by  the  General  Assembly  of  the  State  of 
Vermont: 

SECTION  1.  Any  high  or  grammar  school  whose  course 
of  study  or  outline  or  work  in  manual  training  has  been  ap- 
proved by  the  state  superintendent  of  education,  may,  upon 
application,  be  placed  upon  an  approved  list  of  schools  main- 
taining manual  training  departments.  A  school  once  entered 
upon  such  list  may  remain  there  and  be  entitled  to  state  aid 
so  long  as  the  scope  and  character  of  its  work  are  maintained 
in  such  manner  as  to  meet  the  approval  of  such  superintendent. 
On  the  first  day  of  July  in  each  year  the  clerk  of  each  school 
board  maintaining  a  school  on  the  approved  list  or  the  city 
superintendent  of  any  city  where  such  an  approved  school  is 
maintained,  shall  report  to  the  state  superintendent  of  educa- 


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tion  in  such  form  as  may  be  required,  setting  forth  the  facts 
relating  to  the  cost  of  maintaining  the  manual  training  depart- 
ment thereof,  the  character  of  the  wo'rk  done,  the  number  and 
names  of  teachers  employed,  and  the  length  of  time  such  de- 
partment was  maintained  during  the  preceding  year.  And 
upon  the  receipt  of  such  report,  if  it  shall  appear  that  the  de- 
partment has  been  maintained  in  a  satisfactory  manner  for  a 
period  of  not  less  than  six  months  during  the  year,  the  said 
superintendent  shall  make  a  certificate  to  that  effect  and  file  it 
with  the  auditor  of  accounts.  Upon  receiving  such  certificate, 
the  auditor  of  accounts  shall  draw  an  order  for  two  hundred 
and  fifty  dollars  payable  to  the  treasurer  of  the  town,  city  or  dis- 
trict maintaining  the  school ;  provided  that  the  total  amount  ex- 
pended for  such  purpose  shall  not  exceed  five  thousand  dollars 
in  any  year. 

SEC.  2.  Two  or  more  towns  may  unite  as  a  district  for 
the  maintenance  of  the  industrial  schools  provided  for  in  the 
preceding  section,  but  no  such  district  shall  be  created  without 
the  approval  of  the  superintendent  of  education. 

Approved  January  27,  1909. 


No    41  places  the  control  of  secret  societies,  organized  in  connection 
with  public  schools,  in  the  hands  of  the  school  boards. 


No.  41. —AN    ACT    RELATING  TO  SECRET  SOCIETIES 
IN  PUBLIC  SCHOOLS. 

It  is  hereby  enacted  by  the  General  Assembly  of  the  State  of 
Vermont: 

SECTION  1.  No  pupil  registered  as  such  and  attending 
any  public  school  in  the  state  which  is  wholly  or  partly  main- 
tained by  public  funds  shall  join,  become  a  member  of  or  solicit 
any  other  pupil  of  such  school  to  join  or  become  a  member  of 
any  secret  fraternity,  club  or  society  wholly  or  partially  formed 
from  the  membership  or  pupils  attending  such  school,  or  take 
part  in  the  organization  or  formation  of  any  such  fraternity, 
club  or  society  or  the  continuation  of  any  such  existing  frater- 
nity, club,  society  or  association,  except  such  societies  or  associa- 
tions as  are  sanctioned  by  the  school  authorities  after  an  impar- 


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tial  investigation  of  their  natrue,  in  the  course  of  which  the 
members  of  any  such  existing  fraternity,  club,  society  or  asso- 
ciation shall  be  given  full  opportunity  to  be  heard  in  person  or 
by  deputy.  The  decision  of  said  school  authorities,  however, 
shall  be  final. 

SEC.  2.  The  school  directors,  commissioners  or  other 
school  authorities  of  the  several  towns,  villages  and  incorporated 
school  districts  shall  enforce  the  provisions  of  the  preceding 
section  in  their  respective  towns,  villages  or  incorporated  school 
districts  and  shall  have  full  power  and  authority  to  make,  adopt 
and  modify  all  rules  and  regulations  which  in  their  judgment 
may  be  necessary  for  the  proper  governing  of  such  schools  and 
enforcing  all  of  the  provisions  of  the  preceding  section. 

SEC.  3.  The  school  directors,  commissioners  or  other 
school  authorities  of  the  several  towns,  villages  and  incorporated 
school  districts  shall  have  power  and  authority,  pursuant  to 
rules  and  regulations  made  and  adopted  by  them  for  that  pur- 
pose, to  suspend  or  dismiss  any  pupil  of  such  schools  therefrom 
or  to  prevent  such  pupil  or  any  of  them  from  graduating  or 
participating  in  school  honors,  when,  after  investigation,  in  the 
judgment  of  such  school  directors,  commissioners  or  other  school 
authorities  or  a  majority  of  them,  such  pupil  is  guilty  of  violat- 
ing any  of  the  provisions  of  the  second  preceding  section  or  is 
guilty  of  violating  a  rule  or  regulation  adopted  by  such  directors, 
commissioners  or  other  school  authorities  for  the  purpose  of 
governing  such  schools  or  for  the  purpose  of  enforcing  the  pro- 
visions of  such  second  preceding  section. 

SEC.  4.  The  provisions  of  this  act  shall  not  apply  to 
membership  in  temperance  or  religious  societies  or  associations 
of  any  kind  or  to  societies  or  any  form  of  associations  which 
have  been  established  in  a  given  community  for  the  moral  ad- 
vancement of  its  youth. 

SEC.  5.  All  acts  and  parts  of  acts  inconsistent  with  this 
act  are  hereby  repealed. 

SEC.  6.     This  act  shall  take  effect  from  its  passage. 

Approved  January  7,  1909. 


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No.  42  gives  teachers  the  privilege  of  visiting  schools,  without  loss 
of  time,  provided  they  are  so  instructed  by  their  respective  superintendents 


No.  42.— AN  ACT  TO  AMEND  SECTION  1025  OF  THE 
PUBLIC  STATUTES,  RELATING  TO  TIME  ALLOWED 
TEACHERS. 

It  is  hereby  enacted  by  the  General  Assembly  of  the  State  of 
Vermont: 

SECTION  1.  Section  1025  of  the  Public  Statutes  is  hereby 
amended  so  as  to  read  as  follows: 

Section  1025.  The  time  not  exceeding  four  days  actually 
spent  by  a  teacher  in  attendance  upon  a  meeting  of  the  state 
teachers'  association,  upon  educational  meetings  held  by  the 
superintendent  of  education  or  town  or  union  superintendent, 
and  the  time  actually  spent  by  a  teacher  in  visiting  schools 
when  so  instructed  by  the  town  or  union  superintendent,  during 
the  time  such  teacher  is  engaged,  shall,  in  determining  the  com- 
pensation of  the  teacher  and  the  number  of  weeks  of  school, 
be  accounted  the  same  as  if  spent  in  teaching. 

SEC.  2.  All  acts  or  parts  of  acts  inconsistent  with  this 
act  are  hereby  repealed. 

SEC.  3.     This  act  shall  take  effect  from  its  passage. 

Approved  December  2,  1908. 


No.  43  makes  the  truancy  law  simpler  and  more  operative,  gives 
truant  officers  power  to  call  the  health  officer  or  a  competent  physician  in 
case  of  doubt  in  regard  to  a  child's  sickness,  gives  school  boards  power  to 
excuse  a  child  from  school  attendance,  and  defines  a  habitual  truant. 


No.  43.— AN  ACT  TO  AMEND  SECTIONS  1030,  1033  AND 
1037  OF  THE  PUBLIC  STATUTES,  AND  TO  REPEAL 
SECTION  1036  OF  THE  PUBLIC  STATUTES,  RELAT- 
ING TO  SCHOOL  AGE  AND  ATTENDANCE. 

It  is  hereby  enacted  by  the  General  Assembly  of  the  State  of 
Vermont: 

SECTION  1.    Section  1030  of  the  Public  Statutes  is  hereby 
amended  so  as  to  read  as  follows: 


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Section  1030.  If  a  person  having  the  control  of  a  child 
over  fifteen  years  of  age  allows  such  child  to  be  enrolled  as  a 
pupil  in  a  public  school  or  in  a  school  in  which  his  tuition  is  paid 
at  the  public  expense,  he  shall  cause  such  child  to  attend  such 
school  regularly  during  the  term  for  which  he  is  enrolled,  unless 
he  is  mentally  or  physically  unable  to  continue  or  is  excused  in 
writing  by  the  board  of  school  directors. 

SEC.  2.  Section  1033  of  the  Public  Statutes  is  hereby 
amended  so  as  to  read  as  follows: 

Section  1033.  Said  truant  officer  shall,  upon  such  notice, 
forthwith  inquire  into  the  cause  of  such  child's  non-attendance; 
and,  if  he  finds  that  such  child  is  required  to  attend  school,  he 
shall  notify  the  person  having  such  child  under  his  control  that 
such  child  is  a  truant,  and  also  notify  such  person  to  cause  such 
child  to  attend  school  regularly  thereafter,  and  such  notice  shall 
be  in  writing;  and  if  the  truant  officer  shall  find  such  child,  he 
shall  take  him  to  school  and  place  him  in  charge  of  the  teacher 
thereof;  and  a  truant  officer  may  stop  a  child  between  the  ages 
of  eight  and  fifteen  years,  or  a  child  over  fifteen  years  of  age 
who  has  become  enrolled  in  a  school,  wherever  found  during  school 
hours,  and  take  him  to  the  school,  public  or  private,  which  he 
should  attend.  When  a  person  having  charge  and  control  of 
a  child  states  to  the  truant  officer  that  the  child  is  mentally  or 
physically  unable  to  attend  school,  and  the  truant  officer 
believes  or  has  reason  to  believe  that  such  statement  is  false, 
he  may  request  the  health  officer  of  the  town  or  a  competent 
physician  to  examine  such  child  and  report  the  facts  to  such 
officer,  and  the  expense  of  such  examination  shall  be  paid  from 
the  school  funds  of  the  town. 

SEC.  3.  Section  1037  of  the  Public  Statutes  is  hereby 
amended  so  as  to  read  as  follows: 

Section  1037.  Upon  such  notice  of  the  truant  officer,  if 
the  person  having  control  of  such  child  fails,  without  legal 
excuse,  to  cause  such  child  to  attend  school  regularly  there- 
after, the  officer  giving  the  notice  shall  forthwith  enter  a  com- 
plaint to  the  town  grand  juror  of  the  town  in  which  said  per- 
son resides,  or  to  the  state's  attorney  of  the  county,  who  shall 
prosecute  said  person,  and  said  person  shall  be  fined  as  provided 
in  section  1043  of  the  Public  Statutes. 

SEC.  4.  Unless  physically  or  mentally  unable  to  at- 
tend, or  excused  in  writing  by  the  board  of  school  directors 
or  prudential  committee,  any  child  between  the  ages  of  eight 
and  fifteen  years  and  any  child  over  fifteen  years  who  has  be- 
come enrolled  in  a  public  or  private  school,  whose  absence  from 


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school  aggregates  five  days  during  any  four  consecutive  weeks 
of  school  may  be  adjudged  an  habitual  truant. 

SEC.  5.  Section  1036  of  the  Public  Statutes  is  hereby 
repealed. 

SEC.  7.     This  act  shall  take  effect  from  its  passage. 

Approved  January  28,  1909. 


No.  44  extends  the  powers  granted  to  town  superintendents,  under 
the  child  labor  law,  to  union  superintendents  and  prudential  committees. 


No.  44.— AN  ACT  TO  AMEND  SECTIONS  1044  AND  1045 
OF  THE  PUBLIC  STATUTES,  RELATING  TO  THE 
EMPLOYMENT  OF  CHILDREN  UNDER  SIXTEEN 
YEARS  OF  AGE. 

It  is  hereby  enacted  by  the  General  Assembly  of  the  State  of 
Vermont: 

SECTION  1.  Section  1044  of  the  Public  Statutes  is  hereby 
amended  so  as  to  read  as  follows : 

Section  1044.  A  child  under  sixteen  years  of  age  who  has 
not  completed  the  course  of  study  of  nine  years  prepared  for  the 
elementary  schools  by  the  superintendent  of  education  shall 
not,  unless  excused  in  writing  by  the  town  superintendent  of 
schools  or  in  case  of  district  supervision  by  the  district  super- 
intendent, or  by  the  chairman  of  the  prudential  committee  in 
the  case  of  an  incorporated  district,  be  employed  in  work  con- 
nected with  railroading,  mining,  manufacturing  or  quarrying, 
or  be  employed  in  delivering  messages  by  a  corporation  or  com- 
pany, except  during  vacations  and  before  and  after  school, 
unless  said  child  deposits  with  his  employer  a  certificate  from 
said  superintendent  or  chairman  of  the  prudential  committee 
to  the  effect  that  he  is  eligible  to  employment  in  accordance  with 
the  provisions  of  this  chapter;  and  no  child  under  sixteen  year^ 
of  age  shall  be  employed  after  eight  o'clock  at  night  in  any  of 
the  occupations  or  industries  herein  enumerated.  In  case  said 
child  has  been  in  attendance  upon  a  private  or  parochial  school, 
such  superintendent  or  chairman  of  the  prudential  committee 
may  examine  said  child  for  the  purpose  of  determining  his 
eligibility  to  employment  in  accordance  with  this  section. 


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SEC.  2.  Section  1045  of  the  Public  Statutes  is  hereby 
amended  so  as  to  read  as  follows : 

Section  1045.  The  town  superintendent,  district  super- 
intendent or  the  chairman  of  the  prudential  committee  may  in- 
quire of  the  owner  or  superintendent  of  a  mill,  factory,  quarry, 
workshop,  or  railroad  office,  shop  or  yards,  as  to  the  employment 
of  children  therein,  may  call  for  the  production  of  certificates 
deposited  with  such  owner  or  superintendent,  and  satisfy  him- 
self that  the  requirements  of  law  have  been  complied  with. 

Approved  November  17,  1908. 


No.  45  provides  for  the  monthly  payment  of  teachers'  wages. 

No.  45.— AN  ACT  TO  PROVIDE  FOR  THE  PAY  OF  PUB- 
LIC SCHOOL  TEACHERS,  AND  TO  AMEND  SECTION 
1054  OF  THE  PUBLIC  STATUTES. 

It  is  hereby  enacted  by  the  General  Assembly  of  the  State  oj 
Vermont: 

SECTION  1.  A  teacher  in  the  public  schools  of  any  town 
shall  be  entitled  to  receive  monthly  payment  of  wages  due 
under  the  contract  of  said  teacher  with  such  town,  provided 
such  teacher  demands  of  the  board  of  school  directors  such 
monthly  payment. 

SEC.  2.  Section  1054  of  the  Public  Statutes  is  hereby 
amended  so  as  to  read  as  follows : 

Section  1054.  Said  clerk  shall  examine  the  register;  and, 
if  it  is  filled  out  and  properly  certified  to  by  the  teacher,  he 
shall  give  a  certificate  to  that  effect;  and  the  teacher  shall  not 
be  entitled  to  compensaton  for  the  last  four  weeks  of  teaching 
except  on  presentation  of  such  certificate. 

SEC.  3.  This  act  shall  take  effect  from  its  passage,  but 
shall  not  affect  existing  contracts. 

Approved  January  25,  1909. 


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No.  46  places  in  the  hands  of  the  board  of  school  directors  the  man- 
agement of  grammar  school  lands  in  towns  receiving  the  benefit  of  the 
revenue  from  such  lands,  and  directs  that  the  revenue  shall  be  applied  in 
providing  advanced  instruction. 


No.  46.— AN  ACT  RELATING  TO  GRAMMAR  SCHOOL 

LANDS. 

It  is  hereby  enacted  by  the  General  Assembly  of  the  State  of 
Vermont: 

SECTION  1.  The  school  directors  of  any  town  within  which 
grammar  school  lands  are  located,  provided  the  revenue  of 
such  grammar  school  lands  has  not  been  granted  to  a  particular 
academy  or  grammar  school  or  to  a  particular  use  by  special 
act  of  the  general  assembly,  shall  have  control  and  management 
of  such  lands,  shall  have  power  to  lease  the  same  on  the  expira- 
tion of  existing  leases,  arid  to  collect  and  disburse  all  revenues 
arising  therefrom.  If  in  any  town  in  which  such  lands  are  lo- 
cated a  high  school  or  an  academy,  approved  by  the  superin- 
tendent of  education,  is  maintained  by  such  town,  the  revenues 
arising  from  such  lands  shall  be  used  in  the  maintenance  of  such 
high  school  or  academy;  but  if  no  approved  high  school  or 
academy  is  maintained  by  the  town,  the  revenues  arising  from 
such  lands  shall  be  used  in  the  payment  of  the  tuition  of  resi- 
dent students  for  advanced  instruction  in  other  towns.  All 
funds  that  have  accumulated  in  the  hands  of  trustees  in  any 
town  within  which  grammar  school  lands  are  located  shall  be 
paid  over  to  the  board  of  school  directors  to  invest  and  control, 
for  which  bonds  satisfactory  to  the  selectmen  shall  be  given, 
and  the  income  from  such  investments  shall  be  used  in  the 
same  manner  as  the  revenues  of  the  grammar  school  lands 
hereinbefore  mentioned. 

SEC.  2.  All  acts  or  parts  of  acts  inconsistent  with  this 
act  are  hereby  repealed. 

SEC.  3.     This  act  shall  take  effect  February  1,  1909. 

Approved  January  22,  1909. 


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No.  47  provides  for  the  apportionment  of  state  school  revenues  by 
the  State  Board  of  Education,  directs  the  State  Treasurer  to  distribute 
revenues  accordingly,  and  permits  high  school  students  to  ride  in  convey- 
ances provided  for  elementary  pupils. 


No.  47.— AN  ACT  TO  AMEND  VARIOUS  SECTIONS  OF 
THE  PUBLIC  STATUTES,  RELATING  TO  STATE 
AID. 

It  is  hereby  enacted  by  the  General  Assembly  of  the  State  oj 
Vermont: 

SECTION  1.  Section  1095  of  the  Public  Statutes  is  hereby 
amended  so  as  to  read  as  follows: 

Section  1095.  The  state  board  of  education  shall  annually, 
in  the  month  of  June,  apportion  the  money  in  the  state  treasury 
received  on  such  tax  in  the  following  manner:  in  order  to  equal- 
ize school  taxes  and  afford  equal  school  privileges,  forty-five  thou 
sand  dollars  shall  be  reserved  and,  in  its  discretion,  shall  be  ap- 
portioned by  said  board  among  the  towns,  unorganized  towns 
and  gores,  which  have  actually  expended,  in  addition  to  all  other 
school  moneys,  at  least  fifty  cents  on  the  dollar  of  the  grand 
ist  for  school  purposes,  not  including  new  buildings.  The 
remaining  portion  of  the  income  received  on  such  tax  shall, 
at  the  same  time,  be  apportioned  by  said  board  among  the  towns, 
unorganized  towns  and  gores,  in  proportion  to  the  number  of 
legal  schools  maintained  in  each  during  the  preceding  school 
year,  but  any  town  maintaining  only  one  school  shall  not  for- 
feit its  share  in  such  apportionment  because  the  average  daily 
attendance  of  such  school  is  below  six  for  twenty-eight  con- 
secutive weeks.  Upon  completion  of  the  apportionments 
herein  provided  for,  said  board  shall  forthwith  furnish  the  state 
treasurer  a  certified  copy  of  the  same.  In  unorganized  towns 
and  gores,  the  moneys  received  from  the  state  on  the  division  of 
revenues  according  to  number  of  legal  schools  shall  be  divided 
equally  among  the  several  school  districts  which  have  main- 
tained legal  schools  during  the  preceding  school  year. 

SEC.  2.  Section  1096  of  the  Public  Statutes  is  hereby 
amended  so  as  to  read  as  follows: 

Section  1096.  Said  treasurer  shall,  annually,  on  or  before 
the  tenth  day  of  July,  divide  the  money  in  the  state  treasury 
received  on  such  tax  according  to  the  apportionments  made 
by  said  board,  and,  after  approval  by  the  auditor  of  accounts, 
shall  transmit  the  same  to  the  treasurers  of  the  respective  towns 


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who  shall  credit  such  apportionments  to  the  school  funds  of  the 
town. 

SEC.  3.  Section  1098  of  the  Public  Statutes  is  hereby 
amended  so  as  to  read  as  follows: 

Section  1098.  For  the  purposes  of  this  act  a  district 
incorporated  by  special  act  of  the  general  assembly  shall  be 
considered  a  town,  but  such  district  shall  not  be  entitled  to  its 
portion  of  the  state  school  tax  until  its  school  board  has  fur- 
nished to  the  state  treasurer  the  name  of  the  treasurer  of  such 
district.  Provided  an  incorporated  school  district,  or  part  of 
such  a  district,  exists  in  any  town,  all  revenue  from  bequests, 
funds  or  public  lands,  not  otherwise  specifically  disposed  of  by 
will,  grant,  or  act  of  legislature,  but  devoted  to  the  public 
schools  of  such  towns,  shall  be  divided  by  the  selectmen,  on  or 
before  September  first,  annually,  between  the  town  school  dis- 
trict and  the  incorporated  school  district  according  to  the 
number  of  legal  schools  maintained  in  each,  and  the  portion  of 
the  revenue  received  by  each  district  shall  be  credited  to  the 
school  funds  of  such  district. 

SEC.  4.  In  all  cases  of  transportation  of  elementary  pupils, 
high  school  students  may  have  the  privilege  of  transportation 
on  conveyances  furnished  elementary  pupils,  and,  in  the  dis- 
tribution of  state  aid  for  transportation,  no  deduction  shall  be 
made  in  the  amount  due  a  town  on  account  of  transportation 
furnished  high  school  students  under  this  section. 

SEC.  5.  Section  1099  of  the  Public  Statutes  and  all  acts 
or  parts  of  acts  inconsistent  with  this  act  are  hereby  repealed. 

SEC.  6.     This  act  shall  take  effect  April  1,  1909. 

Approved  January  28,  1909. 


No.  48  provides  for  the  display  of  the  flag  on  school  houses  or  premises. 

No.  48.— AN  ACT  TO  PROVIDE  FOR  THE  DISPLAY  OF 
FLAGS   ON  SCHOOL  PREMISES. 

It  is  hereby  enacted  by  the  General  Assembly  of  the  Slate  of 
Vermont: 

SECTION  1.     The  board  of  school  directors  and  the  cor- 
responding officers  in  school  districts  shall  cause  to  be  erected 


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on  each  school  house,  or  on  the  premises  belonging  thereto,  a 
suitable  flag  pole  and  shall,  while  school  is  in  session  therein, 
cause  a  United  States  flag  to  be  displayed  thereon. 
Approved  December  2,  1908. 


No.  49  relates  to  instruction  of  deaf  and  dumb  children. 


No.  49.— AN  ACT  IN  ADDITION  TO  CHAPTER  60  OF 
THE  PUBLIC  STATUTES,  RELATING  TO  THE  IN- 
STRUCTION OF  DEAF,  DUMB  AND  OTHER  DE- 
FECTIVE CLASSES. 

It  is  hereby  enacted  by  the  General  Assembly  of  the  State  of 
Vermont: 

SECTION  1.  The  governor  may,  in  his  discretion,  provide 
for  the  instruction  of  blind,  deaf  and  dumb  children  over  14 
years  of  age,  and  of  blind  adults,  in  such  schools  without  this 
state  as  he  may  designate,  said  schools  to  be  selected  with 
reference  to  furnishing  instruction  in  such  trades  or  lines  of 
work  as  will  be  best  calculated 'to  enable  such  persons  to  be 
self-supporting.  The  expense  of  such  instruction  shall  be  paid 
from  the  appropriation  provided  by  section  1 168  of  the  Public 
Statutes,  and  the  provisions  of  chapter  60  of  the  Public 
Statutes  shall  apply  to  such  beneficiaries  in  so  far  as  the  same 
are  not  inconsistent  with  this  act. 

SEC.  2.    This  act  shall  take  effect  from  its  passage. 

Approved  January  7,  1909. 


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